Description: Further DetailsTitle: Grandmothers on GuardCondition: NewSubtitle: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico BorderISBN-10: 1477322752EAN: 9781477322758ISBN: 9781477322758Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/18/2021Description: For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine—men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits—older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmAuthor: Jennifer JohnsonGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social SciencesItem Weight: 481gRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Grandmothers on Guard
Title: Grandmothers on Guard
Subtitle: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border
ISBN-10: 1477322752
EAN: 9781477322758
ISBN: 9781477322758
Release Date: 05/18/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Grandmothers on Guard : Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the Us-Mexico Border
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Gerontology, Sociology / General, Gender Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Social Science
Author: Jennifer Johnson
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
